This month we’ve made significant progress on the reconstruction of the composting facility. Check out the photo essay below to see and hear about several new and exciting design and infrastructure improvements (and some well-aged compost)!
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Foreground: On-going landscape grading work
Background: The outline and beginning construction of a covered storage space for our carbon source, and behind that the electric equipment for the facility
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This compost “brick” was found inside of the composting system . Because of the emergency shutdown during spring 2020, some of the food scraps and wood shavings remained, and they ended up naturally decomposing
More updates to come in December. We are getting closer to a “power on” date and hope to resume composting operations in January of the New Year.
Have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving holiday!